The Latest Breaking News from Rand Paul

Enough Democrats were set to vote for cloture on a new spending package to get over a 60-vote hurdle and set the stage to end the shutdown.

Republican Sen. Rand Paul again spoke against ousting authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, saying that even though he is a dictator, there are many others around the world and "that does not mean we send Americans to fight every one of them."

Republican Sen. Rand Paul again slammed President Donald Trump over the administration's escalating military campaign in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

Republicans opposing dictator Trump might be a rare occurrence, but not an impossibility. At least that is what recent events suggest.

It appears that the Republican Party is experiencing some internal strife. Late on Tuesday, five GOP members voted in favour of a bill aimed at ending Trump’s tariff war on Brazil.

The Senate voted on Tuesday to advance a resolution to end President Donald Trump's tariffs on Brazilian imports, marking an unusual bipartisan challenge to the administration's trade policy. Five Republicans — including former Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell — joined all Democrats in supporting the measure.

Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma told C-SPAN that the White House "needs to give insight" to Congress

The vote serves as a symbolic rebuke of Trump's trade policies.

Kentucky senator Rand Paul probably represents all the remaining brain cells in the GOP. But when a sitting senator starts comparing his own leader’s military actions to executions in China and Iran, it’s not hyperbole. It’s a warning now.